What's a Good book to read when your going to be high...

That's how it should be, user

can someone explain this image to me

as you can see she's had work done on her

teeth
chin
jaw
brows
forehead
hairline
nose
breasts

You'd be surprised at the power of make up

borges
the ice palace
the name of the wind

Not hating on popular culture, but man, this girl does not only lack salt and sugar or any taste in her appearance, but above all in her “music”. There is nothing memorable, not a single melody that stays with you in any of her songs.

When you compare her to Madonna, who made several famous and hard-to-forget songs already in her first two albums, or even with the modern example of Lady Gaga, TS is a terrible piece of trash.

I know you're trying to be patrician OP but you probably won't want to read while high. There isn't really any way to explain why to someone who hasn't been high before. You'll most likely read the words without really understanding what you're reading. Especially if this is your first time. I had no idea what the fuck was going on the first time I got high.

not necessarily

she has also grown older, probably started working out more, got better with makeup, etc

the differences between the two images are very small

Finnegan's Wake is worth picking up while you're stoned, I couldn't focus for more than 5 pages but it certainly was the most unique reading experience I've ever had.

I'm always intrigued by sociology academic texts when high. Maybe try reading something by G H Mead on symbolic interactionism, that shit always gets me going.

BULLSHIT I CALL BULLSHIT ON THIS

SHENANIGANS

so can't you see that I'm the one who understands you. been here all along so why can't you see you belong to me. I'm cheer caption and I wear sneakers she's cheer captain I'm on these bleachers she wear short skirts and I'm on these bleachers why can't you see you belong to m me

best nights at the club were when that song would play then the dance remix of that journey song. all the first years would rush the dance floor and I would make out with them then pick the ugliest one to take back and fuck at our place

you people are boring

DUDE

Good books to read when stoned, Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut, On the Road by Jack Kerouac, Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me by Richard Farina. Pynchon's Against The Day is both amusing and involving too.

She looks like my girlfriend in "before", but blonde

Cool, I guess...

So, to you something like Bach, Mozart or Beethoven is for kids?

a couple weeks ago I ate a 10mg edible (haven't consumed cannabis in years) and watched the 2nd presidential debate, then got sad and read Tao Lin's "Eeeee Eee Eeee".

I'm gonna be a cliche and say that Kurt Vonnegut is my go-to when I'm stoned, because I guess he was kind of my gateway into similar works of literature. My favorite of his is Bluebeard, but when you introduce drugs into the picture, I feel like either Slaughterhouse-Five or Sirens of Titan would be best fitting.

Another author who I've read quite a bit of and think fits is Tom Robbins. He's an absolute blast. I think my favorites by him are Still Life With Woodpecker and Jitterbug Perfume.

Also, although I've only read a few books of his, I feel like Thomas Pynchon would be another good choice. So far I've only read Crying of Lot 49, Inherent Vice and Mason & Dixon, tried reading Gravity's Rainbow and couldn't hack it yet, but I feel like in some cases Pynchon is an author you need to be on hallucinogens to appreciate.

And even though the book is difficult to follow, House of Leaves is trippy, disturbing, and fascinating. The way the story's told actually matters more than the actual plot.

TL;DR postmodernism is your best bet

A bible is actually trippy as hell to read high...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=18YLdEODLaE

Non smokers are weird. I wish we had dispensaries where i live i gotta rely on random people i know

>music is for kids
Look at this pleb,

He probably isn't aware that music exists outside of the top 40.

kek

Was that in Republic or only Laws?

that shit is for old people man. I'm high and it feels like I'm panicking. but I'm reading at swim two birds. funny.

Lovecraft short stories are good while high

Don't forget photoshop.

>The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.

One of my favorite segments from The Republic. Plato truly was one in a billion.

>There is nothing memorable, not a single melody that stays with you in any of her songs.
are you joking? there are at least five or six great tunes on her first three albums, and a handful more that are, if not great, still pretty good. "Enchanted", for example, isn't a great song—but if you're looking for a memorable melody, the chorus from this one is exactly that.

>When you compare her to Madonna
Not many pop artists can compare to Madonna, especially her "first two albums", and you fail to mention that there is a significant drop-off in quality after those two.

The problem with Taylor Swift isn't that her tunes aren't memorable. It's that she's a bad person whose music subtly encourages vanity and licentiousness. Madonna at least wasn't subtle. Madonna made music to dance or party to; Swift makes lifestyle music, something incomparably more evil.

I think I can defend his point a little.

It's not, of course, that music can only be enjoyed by children, or best enjoyed by children. But music as a hobby—listening to music every day for 3+ hours, constantly finding out new artists, sharing music with friends, etc, is a hobby for teenagers. You can't sustain it into your twenties and thirties. At some point you need to cut back significantly on the time you spend listening to music, or else you'll lose most of the joy you get out of it. The friends I have in their late twenties who still listen to music frequently, they're a bit like porn addicts—in order to renew their excitement, they need to go for stranger and more grotesque things, and even then they don't quite enjoy it as much as they used to. Now I listen to less than an hour of music a day, some days no music at all, and because of that I enjoy it immensely when I do listen to it.

Whatever you normally listen to or watch. It makes everything better.

Ok dude, you're strange. Not that what you're doing is wrong for you, but this attempt on your experience to other people really makes little sense. It's up to you to find the balance of what you enjoy. There are musicians who practice 8+ hours a day and have a deep and honest love for music. There are some pieces that I love which have had a powerful impact on me that I rarely listen to because I want to be in the appropriate mood for them rather then wearing them out. There is other music that I can listen to any day and be satisfied by. Some days I won't have any need to listen to music, while in others I want to deeply immerse myself in sound.

>in order to renew their excitement, they need to go for stranger and more grotesque things

I have little doubt that your appreciation is relatively limited then. Your whole attitude strikes me as being driven by a desire to identify or not identify yourself as something, or to reject what you perceive as excessive attachment by your peers. I don't expect you to go out and down a heap of experimental, atonal music, but there's more out there than what I'd expect you to understand.

>but there's more out there than what I'd expect you to understand

I've listened to a lot more than you assume I have

I now want to see a joker spinoff named "the gagster" with an organized crime schtick